PUBLIC SERVICEAssociated PressThe Pulitzer committee honored the A.P. for the work of Mstyslav Chernov, Evgeniy Maloletka, Vasilisa Stepanenko and Lori Hinnant, citing their “courageous reporting from the besieged city of Mariupol that bore witness to the slaughter of civilians in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.”Finalists Austin American-Statesman, in collaboration with the USA Today Network; The Washington PostBREAKING NEWSStaff of The Los Angeles TimesThe Los Angeles Times won for “revealing a secretly recorded conversation among city officials that included racist comments,” followed by additional coverage exploring racial issues in local politics. Finalists Staff of The New York Times; Josh Gerstein, Alex Ward, Peter S. Canellos, Hailey Fuchs and Heidi Przybyla of PoliticoINVESTIGATIVE REPORTINGStaff of The Wall Street JournalThe Wall Street Journal was honored for “sharp accountability reporting on financial conflicts of interest among officials at 50 federal agencies.”Finalists Joaquin Palomino and Trisha Thadani of the San Francisco Chronicle; staff of the Star Tribune of MinneapolisEXPLANATORY REPORTINGCaitlin Dickerson of The AtlanticMs. Dickerson’s work was a “deeply reported and compelling accounting of the Trump administration policy that forcefully separated migrant children from their parents,” the committee said. Finalists Duaa Eldeib of ProPublica; Terrence McCoy of The Washington Post

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